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Gen Z Thinks About Climate Change Constantly. Why Don’t They Vote Like It?
Sarah Soroosh Moghadam High cost of living and political turmoil are forcing climate change to the back burner, exposing a massive voter turnout problem for the environmental movement. The post G...
How One Woman Is Using the UN to Attack Trans Rights Worldwide
S. Baum It’s no coincidence that the Supreme Court’s decision allowing trans sports bans echoes the work of Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls. The post H...
Graham Platner’s Downfall Was All Too Predictable
Katha Pollitt Inexperienced and improperly vetted, the candidate was a disaster in the making. The post Graham Platner’s Downfall Was All Too Predictable appeared first on The Nation.
Rahm Emanuel’s Speech in Tel Aviv Breaks With a “No Daylight” Approach
Matthew Duss Though the speech broke from a failed approach toward Israel, it was still based on flawed and tendentious attitudes and history. The post Rahm Emanuel’s Speech in Tel Aviv Breaks Wi...
Hot as Hell
Peter Kuper Continued dependence on oil is boiling our planet. The post Hot as Hell appeared first on The Nation.
Ro Khanna says he was detained by armed Israeli settlers in West Bank
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said on Saturday he was detained for over an hour in the West Bank earlier this week by Israeli settlers and that the detention continued with Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) so...
Live updates: Trump escalates Iran tensions over death threat; Houston to probe ICE shooting
President Trump issued a stark warning to Iran late Friday, after the Islamic Republic reportedly plotted an assassination attempt against him. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, said the U.S. has miss...
English soccer star Harry Kane confirms he golfed with Trump: 'Surreal experience'
English striker Harry Kane said Friday that he played a round of golf with President Trump around 18 months ago in Florida after receiving an invite from the president himself. Speaking at a press con...
Huckabee warns Iran not to ‘test’ Trump as tensions simmer
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee warned Tehran on Saturday not to “test” the U.S. military after repeated threats from President Trump in recent days to carry out further strikes on Iranian inf...
Democrats and democratic socialists should unite for election victories
Democrats must unify around winners of primaries across the ideological spectrum and focus on opposing Trump, solving the affordability crisis, and keeping America out of wars in order to win a majori...
Senate Democrat expands probe into Kennedy Center spending
A Senate Democrat is expanding a probe into alleged corruption within the ranks of the renowned Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, accusing its leadership of mismanaging federally appropriated funds...
America’s AI revolution could end in disaster
Big Tech companies are spending billions to build AI data centers across the country, creating temporary jobs for blue-collar workers while draining local resources and potentially replacing them with...
Carville unloads on far-left Democrats over party infighting ahead of midterms
Democratic strategist James Carville tore into progressive and “insurgent” Democrats on Friday, arguing that inner-party division will lead to the same problems he believes helped the GOP elect Presid...
Vulnerable Republicans embrace risky strategy of embracing an unpopular Trump
Republicans in swing-seat House districts are welcoming President Trump to their districts and embracing him as the leader of the party despite his underwater approval ratings. It is a somewhat surpri...
The ‘pragmatic’ Democratic ticket the GOP does not want to face in 2028
Crunch time is rapidly approaching for both the Democratic and Republican leadership. The 2026 midterms are now less than four months away. The results of those races will not only have a massive impa...